This selection is a life story, of Ruby Pickens Tartt. It takes place in LiIvingstone, Alabama on September 28,1938. Amy Chapman was a negro who picked cotton for a living. A few days before she passed away she asked Ruby for a ride home. "I'm tired on my feet hurt," she had said. "I want you to take me home." "Why Aunt Amy," I asked, "what have you been doing lately?" I bin picking cotton," she replied. This is sad because she couldn't even walk home because her feet hurt so bad. While she was in the feild she had a stroke and then she ended up dying from it four day later.
This selection is The Life of Jim Davis written by Helen S. Hartley, on 536 Short Cedar St., in
Mobile, Alabama. Jim Davis was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies, in the year 1878. When he was eleven, he went on a journey that led him to foreign shores, and he never returned back to his native land.Jim and several others of the his crew, jumped the ship, and abandoned the Red Jackets. He was alone, for one week he lived as he could, getting whatever jobs for food and sleeping where he could. Within one week he was arrested for "loafing", and was sent back with the Red Jackets. Forty years ago in 1898, he started working at the Alabama Corn Mills Company as a porter making fifteen dollars a week. He has been married since 1914 to Lizzie.
This selection is The Life of Jim Davis written by Helen S. Hartley, on 536 Short Cedar St., in
Mobile, Alabama. Jim Davis was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies, in the year 1878. When he was eleven, he went on a journey that led him to foreign shores, and he never returned back to his native land.Jim and several others of the his crew, jumped the ship, and abandoned the Red Jackets. He was alone, for one week he lived as he could, getting whatever jobs for food and sleeping where he could. Within one week he was arrested for "loafing", and was sent back with the Red Jackets. Forty years ago in 1898, he started working at the Alabama Corn Mills Company as a porter making fifteen dollars a week. He has been married since 1914 to Lizzie.